In Sports
- Babe Ruth had 171 RBIs with the New York Yankees in 1921
- Johnny Bright rushed for a record 171 yards in the Canadian Football League 44th Grey Cup game on November 24, 1956
- France scored a record 171 goals at the 1998 World Cup
- The Utah Stars, a former American Basketball Association team, went 265-171 (.608) from 1970–1975, the best winning percentage of any team that played in the league
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“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
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—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)